Such an on-point illustration of the high level of fear and consequent demand that everyone - yes, everyone - do whatever is required to keep a person “safe” from a virus where the real lethality and negative outcomes are highly correlated with age and co-morbidities. Toss in some toxic media stupidity and you’ve got a real witches brew …
Such an on-point illustration of the high level of fear and consequent demand that everyone - yes, everyone - do whatever is required to keep a person “safe” from a virus where the real lethality and negative outcomes are highly correlated with age and co-morbidities. Toss in some toxic media stupidity and you’ve got a real witches brew of class warfare where masked servants wait on the unmasked hoi polloi.
What’s missing in all the ham-handed government response is an honest assessment of the cost of all this crap. Wiped out small businesses. Years of missed intellectual progress for students. Masking children to their social detriment as developing human beings with who knows what consequences. Deaths of despair up all across the country. Skyrocketing crime as the social fabric of support is closed down.
And all to keep the elite class safe.
And then oh gosh darn it omnicron broke that safety screen and now the vaccinated are getting Covid in droves. No more demonizing those who get Covid - since you got it yourself.
Yes, a tad bitter, this I am. I view all of this as a nasty bit of theater with untold human grief and cost that was never considered or if it was, handily dismissed as not really relevant when saving their own rears was what really mattered.
What would have helped would have been a touch more empathy, a bit more cost-benefit analysis of policy choices, and understanding as well as support for your fellow humans. Yes, we were all ‘in this together’ but had very different COVID’s.
I'm with you on the class warfare perspective. I do believe that policy was mostly crafted around keeping elites safe. Few of the elites were "essential workers" were they? I suppose you could count medical professionals. Still - a very small percentage.
Such an on-point illustration of the high level of fear and consequent demand that everyone - yes, everyone - do whatever is required to keep a person “safe” from a virus where the real lethality and negative outcomes are highly correlated with age and co-morbidities. Toss in some toxic media stupidity and you’ve got a real witches brew of class warfare where masked servants wait on the unmasked hoi polloi.
What’s missing in all the ham-handed government response is an honest assessment of the cost of all this crap. Wiped out small businesses. Years of missed intellectual progress for students. Masking children to their social detriment as developing human beings with who knows what consequences. Deaths of despair up all across the country. Skyrocketing crime as the social fabric of support is closed down.
And all to keep the elite class safe.
And then oh gosh darn it omnicron broke that safety screen and now the vaccinated are getting Covid in droves. No more demonizing those who get Covid - since you got it yourself.
Yes, a tad bitter, this I am. I view all of this as a nasty bit of theater with untold human grief and cost that was never considered or if it was, handily dismissed as not really relevant when saving their own rears was what really mattered.
What would have helped would have been a touch more empathy, a bit more cost-benefit analysis of policy choices, and understanding as well as support for your fellow humans. Yes, we were all ‘in this together’ but had very different COVID’s.
So well said. Yep, I agree completely.
I'm with you on the class warfare perspective. I do believe that policy was mostly crafted around keeping elites safe. Few of the elites were "essential workers" were they? I suppose you could count medical professionals. Still - a very small percentage.